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Local artist John Bisbee created a decorative screen out of nails for the end of the base cabinet. Stuart built the drawers using traditional wood-on-wood slides and proportionally spaced dovetails, which operate differently in summer and winter. “Those idiosyncrasies effect the way you interact with it,” Stuart notes. “The kitchen is experiential in that way.”

The floor plan of Little House, Big City.

At one end of the living room, tall glass doors lead to an interior garden and one of the four openings—in this case more of a crack—that Hernán made between the houses. “It’s Luisa’s favorite place to hide when we play hide-and-seek,” he says.

Chris made a point of avoiding plasterboard, instead using structurally insulated panels for the walls to create an airtight seal, and for the flooring, a hydronic concrete slab from Hydrotherm that can warm or cool the interiors.

Green hydraulic tiles create a soothing scene in one of the couple's newly-refreshed bathrooms.

The Moongate ADU by Cover Architecture uses a soft palette of earth tones to create a sanctuary that offers refuge from the modern world.

Metal wainscotting can be added along the bottom of the envelope at no extra cost. Other free upgrades include awnings or trellis shades above the windows.

White oak slats and cork cladding give texture to the facade of a house that architect Jack Becker designed for himself and his wife, landscape architect Maddie Hoagland-Hanson, in an alley in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. High awning windows let daylight in while preserving privacy.

Floor plan of Brown House by Bldus